Liouville theorems for the Navier-Stokes equations and applications

Acta Mathematica

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-105

  Koch, Gabriel ^a   Nadirashvili, Nikolai ^b   Seregin, Gregory A ^c   Šverák, Vladimir ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 70350231489     PISSN: 00015962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11511-009-0039-6     Document Type: Article

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